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Brown's appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court
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Man convicted of spying in the U.S. is allowed to return to Cuba
MEXICO CITY -- A man convicted of spying in the U.S. for the Castro regime has been allowed to return to Cuba after more than a decade in an American prison, and on Monday he began the paperwork to make his homecoming permanent (link in Spanish). Rene...
Tags: Punishment, Cuba, Judges, Prisons, U.S. Military
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Editorial: Why did the IRS muscle the right?
Internal Revenue Service targeting of conservative groups startles many Americans because such abuses are rare but consequential: When the House Judiciary Committee approved Articles of Impeachment on a momentous Saturday night in July 1974, one of the...Tags: Elections, Internal Revenue Service, George W. Bush, U.S. Congress, The Washington Post
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Jerry Brown files notice to appeal prison ruling to Supreme Court
Gov. Jerry Brown has, as promised, filed legal papers to appeal federal court orders to reduce the state's prison population with the U.S. Supreme Court. [Updated 4:40 p.m. May 13: The brief notice of appeal, filed Monday afternoon, simply states that a...Tags: Jerry Brown, Lawyers, Judges, Prisons, Trials
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What gives with Sandra Day O'Connor?
Justice Sandra Day O'Connor should never have retired from the U.S. Supreme Court. She is an 83-year-old with plenty of energy, which she expends hearing lower-court cases, giving speeches, and making me want to tear my hair out by talking like the...
Tags: Elections, George W. Bush, Republican Party, John G. Roberts, Jr., Judges
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A LOOK BACK
May 12, 1958: The United States and Canada signed an agreement to create the North American Air Defense Command (later the North American Aerospace Defense Command, or NORAD). May 13, 1963: The U.S. Supreme Court, in Brady v. Maryland, upheld, 7-2, a...Tags: Racism, Punishment, Religion and Belief, U.S. Senate, Judaism
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Woman fights to keep house
South Bend TribuneA series of setbacks led to a Mishawaka woman's home being sold at a county tax sale, and a St. Joseph County judge is weighing whether she was adequately warned that her house was in jeopardy. Meanwhile, attorneys and judges around the state are...Tags: Homes, Family, Accounting and Auditing, Insurance, Car Repair and Maintenance Tips
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Justice Ginsburg: Roe v. Wade not 'woman-centered'
Tribune reporterForty years after the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark Roe v. Wade case legalized abortion, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said the case is not her "ideal picture" for resolving the controversial issue of abortion. Instead, the landmark decision gave...Tags: U.S. Air Force, Abortion, Feminism, Justice and Rights, University of Chicago Law School
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Farming: 'I know it when I see it'
In the 1964 U.S. Supreme Court case Jacobellis v. Ohio, Justice Potter Stewart wrote a concurring opinion he hoped would establish a legal standard that protected every American’s right to free speech yet guarded “community standards”...Tags: Orrin Hatch, U.S. Congress, Gross Domestic Product, The Washington Post, Political Corruption
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'Dell Tax Maneuver' could galvanize efforts to tweak Prop. 13
Stephanie Nordlinger, who lives in a modest Baldwin Hills tract home, has been reading with interest the news stories about computer magnate Michael Dell and his low, low property taxes. Last week, the Times reported that Dell has saved more than a...
Tags: Tom Ammiano, Elections, Crime, Law and Justice, Taxation, Miramar
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Front Burner: Should schools drug-test students?
America's war on drugs is being fought on myriad fronts. One of the most controversial battlefields involves the schoolhouse. In 2002, the U.S. Supreme Court, in Pottawatomie County v. Earls, expanded drug testing in public schools. The ruling allowed...
Tags: Schools, Education, Periodicals, Teaching and Learning, Heroin
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Speaking limits ruled 'unconstitutional'
A section of a Costa Mesa law that limits what speakers can say at City Council meetings is unconstitutional, federal justices have ruled. The law's ban on "personal, impertinent, profane, insolent or slanderous remarks" during public comment periods...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Immigration, American Civil Liberties Union, Allan R. Mansoor
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